I remember watching 'Die Hard' and being blown away by the craft of it all. The simplicity of the premise, the gradual escalation of the threat, the way the character is completely isolated, physically and emotionally. All those things definitely stuck with me when I was developing 'The Raid'.
I stole very happily from Kurosawa, from Seven Samurai, from Yojimbo, particularly from Kurosawa's camera technique and the blocking of his action sequence.
— John McTiernan · Entertainment Weekly
Films That Influenced Die Hard
